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Jessie Gruman
Jessie Gruman		 Problems with evidence-based guidelines and comparative effectiveness research all have at their core the conflict between averages and individuals.
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Trudy Lieberman
Trudy Lieberman		 A young man I know who is 25 finds himself in a health insurance pickle.  The much-touted provision of the new reform law that lets young adults stay on his parents’ insurance policy is no help, leaving him with the choice of very costly insurance or going without. Matt had heard about the new law and [...]
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Jessie Gruman
Jessie Gruman		 Delivering evidence-based medicine is a deceptively elegant and simple goal.  But new findings about the increase in antibiotic resistance challenge us to consider just how complicated and challenging it is to actually define and deliver evidence-based care.   “Are we ready for a world without antibiotics?”  A recent paper, in Lancet Infectious Diseases, documented the spread of [...]
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Jessie Gruman
Jessie Gruman		 Ask us if we are more likely to use a medication as directed if our doctors explain why a specific drug might be helpful, how to take it so that it is most effective and what its possible side effects are and then discuss whether we think we are willing and able to take it. “Of [...]
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